Vladimir,
That is absolutely wonderful. I've been looking everywhere for something like this! This is absolutely ideal. Have you told the good people at http://www.json.org/ what you've done?

Thank you Phil!

I rather think that this is a simple and not so special program but I am glad that you find it useful.

Thanks for making this, Vladimir. This is better than other JSON formatters I've seen.

Thank you very much for making this script. It was a nice job, Vladimir. Very useful for me. Simple code with powerful function.

Thank you, I've added today an option to collapse and object or array. This way it is easier to visualize large data.

Great work Vladimir.
This is so very useful.
My hat is off to you!
Thank you.

Great tool! wrote a mini review of it here:

http://peterkellner.net/2009/11/06/formatting-json-best-tool/

Thanks Peter!

I really like your JSON formatter!

One request, if the keys come in quoted, can we keep them quoted? Or make this an option?

Thanks!

David

Thank you for putting in the key quoting! It works great.

Another request.

When you de-escape strings it makes it so I can't copy and paste the parsed data into other tools.

For instance:
{"key":"\\escaped\\values\\by\\slashes"}

Becomes:
{
"key":"\escaped\values\by\slashes"
}

But this is not valid JSON, since \e \v \b and \s are not the same as \\e \\v \\b and \\s.

This reminds me of one other suggestion ... the ability to copy an entire expanded block. Ctrl-A selects the entire page not just the parsed text.

Thanks!

David

Thanks again for your prompt update!

Hi Vladimir,

This is fantastic! I was looking for something that would handle all of the processing on the client side and this application is just what I needed.

I do have one suggestion: When a JSON packet fails validaiton, highlighting the area of the failure would be quite useful.

Thanks again for such a great application!

Cassius

I came across this tool by accident, and wow! It's really amazing and useful.

Congratulations, keep the good work.

Greetings from México.

Is there a way to send a link to this page with JSON to be formatted. e.g., POST to your page?

I added a button "link to this json"

Thank you very much !

Currently doesn't handle Dates and Regex
I added the following lines in the ProcessObject function (just Date)

}else if(type == 'object'){
+ if (obj.constructor == (new Date).constructor) {
+ return html + FormatLiteral("new Date(" + obj.getTime() + ") // " + obj.toLocaleString(), "", comma, indent, isArray, "Date");
+ }
+ // if (obj.constructor == (new RegExp).constructor) {

var numProps = 0;
for(var prop in obj) numProps++;

Thank you Panos, this is a good idea to distinguish date and regex.

Hi Vladimir,
thanks for it! It is a great 2-in-1 formatter+highlighter, just what i needed.

Just for fun: i especially wanted to quickly view the content of php session files formatted (what is "almost" json:)), so inserted this dirty code right after the row [code]var json = $id("RawJson").value;[/code] seems like did do the trick:

json = json.replace(/[|;]?a\:\d+/g,""); 
json = json.replace(/;i\:(\d+);/g,";s:0:$1;"); 
json = json.replace(/i\:(\d+)/g,"\"$1\""); 
json = json.replace(/([}{;]?)s\:\d+\:/g, function(str, p1, offset, s){ 
	if (!!p1 && p1 == "{") { 
		counter = 0; 
		return "{"; 
	} 
	if (!!p1 && p1 == "}") { 
		counter = 0; 
		return "},"; 
	} 
	return (counter++%2) ? "," : ":"; 
}); 
json = json.replace(/;\}/g,"}"); 
json = json.replace(/^\w+\:/g,""); 

Regards
nlac, Hungary

Thanks Nlac, that is interesting

WOW- I see this tool is already 2 years old, but I just discovered it yesterday. Saved me a huge amount of headaches figuring out 2 JSON feeds I have to deal with. THANK YOU Vlad - you rock!